BBC Proms [2011]

Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London in September

Presented by Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein

Another chance to hear conductor Edward Gardner lead the traditional festivities of the Last Night of the Proms 2011.

Gardner, who was the youngest Last Night conductor since Sir Henry Wood himself on the first Last Night in 1895, brings a youthful verve to the celebrations. He's joined by leading dramatic soprano Susan Bullock who performed Brunnhilde's famous 'Immolation Scene' which concludes Wagner's epic Ring cycle, as well as leading the customary communal singing after the Interval. Super-star pianist Lang Lang - the man who's inspired millions of Chinese children to take up the piano - performs Liszt, a composer who he describes as a 'rock star' but also a 'truly great musician' - words that could equally describe Lang Lang himself.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Musica benevolens

Bart　k: The Miraculous Mandarin - suite

Wagner: G怀tterd䀀mmerung - Immolation Scene

Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major

Chopin: Grande Polonaise brillante, Op. 22

Grainger: Mo nighean dubh (My Dark-Haired Maiden)

Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Rodgers: The Sound of Music - 'Climb ev'ry mountain

Rodgers: Carousel - 'You'll never walk alone

Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major ('Land of Hope and Glory')

Arne: Rule Britannia

Parry (orch. Elgar): Jerusalem

The National Anthem

Lang Lang (piano)

Susan Bullock (soprano)

Jenny Agutter (narrator)

The Fanfare Trumpeters of the Household Division

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Edward Gardner (conductor).

The 2011 Last Night of the Proms, featuring pianist Lang Lang and soprano Susan Bullock.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Louise Fryer

British organist Stephen Farr puts the mighty Albert Hall instrument through its paces in a programme which celebrates two musical anniversaries and includes the world premiere of a major new work.

The anniversary composers are Jehan Alain, the French organist born in 1911 and killed in World War II, and Franz Liszt, whose music for organ is the match, in virtuosity and sheer elan, of his more familiar works for piano.

Concluding the programme, Stephen Farr gives the first performance of a characteristically imaginative new work for organ by the British composer Judith Bingham. This suite of pieces depicts a lavish, but imaginary, ceremonial crown in which is framed seven fabulous gemstones of legend. Each movement of the suite takes one of these jewels to represents an aspect of royalty, good and bad - such as divinity and splendour, but also treachery and cruelty, representing the best and the worst of the human race.

Alain: Litanies

Liszt: Prelude 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen' (arr. Winterberger)

JS Bach: Chorale Prelude 'Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott', BWV 721

Judith Bingham: The Everlasting Crown (World Premiere)

Stephen Farr (organ).

Organist Stephen Farr performs music by Jehan Alain, Liszt, Bach and Bingham.

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Presented by Tom Service

The first Choral Sunday of the season boasts the grandest statement of British choral music, Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony. Two BBC orchestras, four brass bands, six choruses, four youth choruses and four star soloists join together for the Proms debut of this epic English 'Symphony of a Thousand'.

According to conductor Martyn Brabbins it will be one of the biggest classical undertakings ever mounted - 'It's going to be a fantastic sonic spectacle, Gothic in the sense of architecture, detail, grandeur and mystery'. Written in 1920, it's only been performed in concert five times since. The Gothic Symphony won a place in the Guinness Book of Records for being the longest symphony, requiring the largest forces. This is a rare chance to hear a unique and massive work, and not to be missed.

Brian: Symphony No. 1 in D minor, 'The Gothic

Susan Gritton (soprano)

Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)

Peter Auty (tenor)

Alastair Miles (bass)

CBSO Youth Chorus

Eltham College Boys' Choir

Southend Boys' and Girls' Choirs

Bach Choir

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Brighton Festival Chorus

C䀀r Caerdydd

Huddersfield Choral Society

London Symphony Chorus

BBC Concert Orchestra

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Tuesday 19 July at 2pm.

BBC CO, NOW and other musicians in the Proms debut of Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

One of the greatest pieces of chamber music for the first of this season's Late Night Proms. A leading quartet of our time is joined by the distinguished cellist and founder member of the Berg Quartet, Valentin Erben. Barely thirty years old, but already near death, Schubert had his String Quintet rejected by his publisher and only performed and published many years after his death. But its exploratory outer movements and the sublimely transcendent slow movement, continue to inspire musicians, poets, film makers and audiences to this day.

Schubert: Quintet in C major, D956

Belcea Quartet

Valentin Erben (cello).

The Belcea Quartet and cellist Valentin Erben perform Schubert's Quintet in C, D956.

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Presented by Donald Macleod

Verdi's Requiem - his great sacred masterpiece - storms the heavens with a stellar line up of soloists and massed choirs in the second of the Proms Choral Sundays.

The ultimate in dramatic intensity, this extraordinary work speaks of heaven and hell, fire and earth, darkness and light in music that is as much theatrical as devotional. Verdi completed it in 1874, and conducted the premiere himself in Milan.

Three large-scale choirs and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by a Verdi specialist whose recent Cologne recording, which also featured bass Ferruccio Furlanetto, has been much acclaimed. Soloists Marina Poplavskaya and Joseph Calleja both sang alongside Furlanetto in last year's Simon Boccanegra at the Royal Opera House.

Verdi: Requiem

Marina Poplavskaya (soprano)

Mariana Pentcheva (mezzo-soprano)

Joseph Calleja (tenor)

Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC National Chorus of Wales

London Philharmonic Choir

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Tuesday 26th July at 2pm.

Semyon Bychkov conducts a line-up of soloists and massed choirs in Verdi's Requiem.

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Presented by Penny Gore

Mahler's last completed symphony, and one he never lived to hear, is brought to life in the Royal Albert Hall by Sir Roger Norrington in one of his final concerts as Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, a post he has held for 13 years.

The Ninth Symphony was a work written at a time of personal crisis for Mahler, following the death of his daughter Maria, the loss of his job at the Vienna Court Opera and the diagnosis of his own heart disease. Musically, however, while allusions to death abound, ultimately the work fades into peaceful resignation; as Alban Berg described it: 'it expresses an extraordinary love of the earth, of nature, the longing to live in peace, to enjoy it completely to the very heart of one's being, before death comes, as irresistibly it does'.

Mahler: Symphony No. 9

Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR)

Sir Roger Norrington (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Wednesday 27th July at 2pm.

Roger Norrington leads the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No 9.

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Presented by Lucy Duran

For the 2011 World Routes Academy, acclaimed South Indian singer Aruna Sairam and her prot退g退, London born veena player Hari Sivanesan, present a concert of the classical music of South India. Having worked together as mentor and prot退g退 both in India and the UK throughout 2011, Aruna Sairam and Hari Sivanesan bring a unique programme of music for the voice and the veena, drawing on centuries of musical tradition.

The World Routes Academy aims to support and inspire young UK based world music artists by bringing them together with an internationally renowned artist in the same field and belonging to the same tradition. BBC Radio 3 appointed young London born veena player Hari Sivanesan as its 2011 World Routes Academy prot退g退 and paired him up with mentor Aruna Sairam, who is based in Chennai, and is regarded as the leading South Indian female vocalist of her generation.

Vocalist Aruna Sairam and veena player Hari Sivanesan in South Indian classical music.

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Sean Rafferty

Antonio Pappano came to the Proms in July with his Orchestra and Chorus of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome, for a rare performance of Rossini's grandest of operas about the legendary founding fathers of Switzerland and the hero who shoots an apple from his son's head. Michele Pertusi takes the title role and the character of Arnold, one of Rossini's most demanding tenor parts, (complete with numerous high Cs), is sung by the American tenor John Osborn.

Rossini: William

William Tell ...... Michele Pertusi (baritone)

Arnold Melchthal ...... John Osborn (tenor)

Walter Furst ...... Matthew Rose (bass)

Melchthal ...... Fr退d退ric Caton (bass)

Jemmy ...... Elena Xanthoudakis (soprano)

Gesler ...... Nicolas Courjal (bass)

Rodolphe ...... Carlo Bosi (tenor)

Ruodi ...... Celso Albelo (tenor)

Leuthold ...... Mark Stone (baritone)

Mathilde ...... Malyn Bystr怀m (soprano)

Hedwige ...... Patricia Bardon (mezzo-soprano)

Huntsman ...... Davide Malvestio (bass)

Antonio Pappano (conductor).

The Orchestra and Chorus of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome in Rossini's William Tell.

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London in July

Presented by Sarah Walker

Another chance to hear last summer's family Prom when the Proms teamed up with CBBC's hit television series 'Horrible Histories' for a concert of songs by Richie Webb and stories and orchestral favourites, including music by Richard Strauss, Saint-Sa뀀ns, Prokofiev, Vaughan-Williams, Berlioz, Handel, Lully, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Stravinsky. It all adds up to a horrible history of classical music!

Mathew Baynton (actor)

Simon Farnaby (actor)

Martha Howe-Douglas (actor)

Jim Howick (actor)

Laurence Rickard (actor)

Ben Willbond (actor)

Rattus Rattus (presenter)

Louise Fryer (presenter)

Choirs from The Music Centre

Kids Company Choir

Aurora Orchestra

Nicholas Collon (Conductor).

A family Prom from 2011, in association with the CBBC TV series Horrible Histories.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Charles Hazlewood

A Late Night Prom celebrating anniversary composer Percy Grainger. Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell leads the way into the musical world of a composer she finds 'quirky and outrageous and very unconventional', concentrating on Grainger's fascinating and varied responses to folk music.

Trad: Green Bushes

Grainger: Green Bushes

Early One Morning, Tulluchgorum and Music for a New Crossing (medley)

Grainger: Molly on the Shore

Shepherd's Hey (medley)

Grainger: Early One Morning

Trad: Sea Shanty

Grainger: Shallow Brown

Trad: Scotch Strathspey & Reel

Grainger: Scotch Strathspey & Reel

June Tabor (folk singer)

Wilson Family (Shanty singers)

Kathryn Tickell Band

BBC Singers (men's voices)

Northern Sinfonia

John Harle (conductor).

A Prom celebrating the quirky music of Percy Grainger.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Marking the 400th anniversary of his death, music by the great Spanish Renaissance composer Victoria performed by one of the world's leading specialists in early music - the Tallis Scholars. At the heart of their programme is Victoria's glorious Requiem - composed in 1603 for the funeral rites of the Dowager Empress Maria, sister of Philip II of Spain - a summation and a farewell to the music of Spain's Golden Age.

Victoria: Dum complerentur

Victoria: Lamentations for Good Friday

Victoria: Officium defunctorum (Requiem)

Peter Phillips (conductor).

Peter Philips conducts the Tallis Scholars in a celebration of Tomas Luis de Victoria.

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London last August

Presented by Martin Handley

Another chance to hear a Prom concert marking the 400th anniversary of the death of great Spanish Renaissance composer Victoria performed by one of the world's leading specialists in early music - the Tallis Scholars. At the heart of their programme is Victoria's glorious Requiem - composed in 1603 for the funeral rites of the Dowager Empress Maria, sister of Philip II of Spain - a summation and a farewell to the music of Spain's Golden Age.

Victoria: Dum complerentur

Victoria: Lamentations for Good Friday

Victoria: Officium defunctorum (Requiem)

Peter Phillips (conductor).

A Prom from 2011 in which the Tallis Scholars perform music by Victoria.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Donald Macleod

In one of the most eagerly anticipated Proms of the season the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra returns to the Royal Albert Hall to perform Mahler's epic 'Resurrection' Symphony.

Formed from pupils of Venezuela's El Sistema programme, an initiative that offers every child a free musical education, the players have been performing together since childhood, and have lit up concert halls around the world with their technical skill, passion and deep musicality - as their concert master violinist Alejandro Carreno says: 'for us this isn't a job, not even a concert, for us music is all of life'. Tonight under the baton of fellow El Sistema alumni Gustavo Dudamel they team up with the young singers of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and distinguished soloists to perform a colossus of the repertoire. Written for vast forces, Mahler's symphony takes a journey from the graveside, asks the question 'is there life after death?' and ends with a triumphant promise of eternal life. It's a work Alejandro Carreno and all the orchestra love, 'Mahler's music is so descriptive, the atmosphere it creates is like that of an opera. We hugely enjoy playing his music.

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection

Miah Persson (soprano)

Anna Larsson (mezzo-soprano)

Sim　n Bol퀀var Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

The Prom will be repeated on Tuesday 9th August at 2pm.

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No 2.

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London in July

Presented by Louise Fryer

Another chance to hear British organist Stephen Farr put the mighty Albert Hall instrument through its paces in a programme which celebrates two musical anniversaries.

The anniversary composers are Jehan Alain, the French organist born in 1911 and killed in World War II, and Franz Liszt, whose music for organ is the match, in virtuosity and sheer elan, of his more familiar works for piano.

Concluding the programme, Stephen Farr gave the first performance of a characteristically imaginative new work for organ by the British composer Judith Bingham. This suite of pieces depicts a lavish, but imaginary, ceremonial crown in which is framed seven fabulous gemstones of legend. Each movement of the suite takes one of these jewels to represents an aspect of royalty, good and bad - such as divinity and splendour, but also treachery and cruelty, representing the best and the worst of the human race.

Alain: Litanies

Liszt: Prelude 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen' (arr. Winterberger)

JS Bach: Chorale Prelude 'Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott', BWV 721

Judith Bingham: The Everlasting Crown.

Prom from 2011 in which Stephen Farr plays music by Alain, Liszt, Bach and Judith Bingham.

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London in August

Presented by Suzy Klein

Another chance to hear Nigel Kennedy bringing his unique musical style and his love of the works of Bach to a programme of solo violin works.

J. S. Bach:

Partita No. 3 in E major - Prelude

Partita No. 2 in D minor

Nigel Kennedy (violin).

Violinist Nigel Kennedy plays a programme of unaccompanied Bach at the 2011 BBC Proms.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Steve Reich brings his distinctive and pioneering style to the Proms, in celebration of his 75th birthday this year. His hypnotic rhythms and elements taken from jazz and non-Western traditions produce some ravishing music.

Clapping Music shows off the percussive abilities of two people who make music with nothing but their own bodies. In Electric Counterpoint a single electric guitarist builds up alluring layers of sound with a multiple guitar soundtrack.

Music for 18 Musicians is a seminal piece from the 1970s and one of Reich's best-known works. The exotic colours and percussive textures are very striking, as is the unusual ensemble, featuring multiple pianos, marimbas and xylophones. It is a work Reich himself is still very satisfied with, and its enduring nature has led to many contemporary electronica artists sampling it today.

Steve Reich:

Steve Reich (percussion, piano)

Mats Bergstr怀m (guitar)

Synergy Vocals

Ensemble Modern.

Steve Reich performs Clapping Music, Electric Counterpoint and Music for 18 Musicians.

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London last August

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Another chance to hear the music of Steve Reich which he brought to the Proms last year in celebration of his 75th birthday. His hypnotic rhythms and elements taken from jazz and non-Western traditions produce some ravishing music.

Clapping Music shows off the percussive abilities of two people who make music with nothing but their own bodies. In Electric Counterpoint a single electric guitarist builds up alluring layers of sound with a multiple guitar soundtrack.

Music for 18 Musicians is a seminal piece from the 1970s and one of Reich's best-known works. The exotic colours and percussive textures are very striking, as is the unusual ensemble, featuring multiple pianos, marimbas and xylophones. It is a work Reich himself is still very satisfied with, and its enduring nature has led to many contemporary electronica artists sampling it today.

Steve Reich:

Steve Reich (percussion, piano)

Mats Bergstr怀m (guitar)

Synergy Vocals

Ensemble Modern.

Steve Reich performs his own works with Ensemble Modern at the 2011 Proms.

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London in August

Presented by Katie Derham

Another chance to hear the BBC Concert Orchestra and principal conductor Keith Lockhart in this concert of music for the silver screen from both sides of the Atlantic.

Celebrating the centenary of his birth there's a tribute to the film composers' composer Bernard Herrmann, alongside music by today's greatest living exponent John Williams. Passages from Henry V accompany William Walton's iconic music, and there's a tribute to the late John Barry with two of his most famous themes. With additional music by Ennio Morricone, Richard Rodney Bennett at 75, and a suite from last year's film Norwegian Wood with music by BBC Concert Orchestra's composer in residence, Jonny Greenwood.

Herrmann: Music from The Man Who Knew Too Much, Citizen Kane, North by Northwest and Psycho

Ennio Morricone: Cinema Paradiso - theme

Walton arr. Muir Mathieson: Henry V - suite

John Williams: Music from Star Wars, Schindler's List and Harry Potter

Jonny Greenwood arr. Robert Ziegler: Norwegian Wood - suite

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett: Murder on the Orient Express - suite

Barry: Out of Africa - Love Theme

Various: Music from the James Bond films

Chlo뀀 Hanslip (violin)

Keith Lockhart (conductor).

A Prom from 2011 featuring film music from Europe and America.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Charles Hazlewood

The inventive multi-taskers of the Spaghetti Western Orchestra perform the epic scores of Ennio Morricone from the films of Sergio Leone.

The Australian group recreates Morricone's classic soundtracks from films such as 'Once Upon a Time in the West' and 'For a Few Dollars More' with only five players by using extraordinary virtuosity on a variety of instruments conventional and rather less so. 'We really embraced the absurdity of a bunch of Aussie guys trying to do what Morricone did with a cast of hundreds', so expect new uses for an asthma inhaler and a cornflake packet as well as a rich vein of humour.

Spaghetti Western Orchestra.

The Spaghetti Western Orchestra performs the film scores of Ennio Morricone.

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Back in August, maverick Australian comedian Tim Minchin brought his own inimitable style of musical fun to the Royal Albert Hall as he hosted this first ever Comedy Prom. He's joined by pianist Danny Driver, who takes on both Reizenstein's Concerto popolare and conductor Andrew Litton. Soprano Susan Bullock, cabaret duo Kit and the Widow, and conducting sensation Sue Perkins all make an appearance alongside the ever versatile BBC Concert Orchestra and MD Jules Buckley.

Performers include:

Susan Bullock (soprano)

Danny Driver (piano)

Beardyman

The Boy with Tape on his Face

Doc Brown

The Mongrels

Jules Buckley (conductor)

Andrew Litton (conductor).

Maverick Australian comedian Tim Minchin hosts the first-ever comedy Prom.

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Recorded last year at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Another chance to hear Valery Gergiev and the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre at last year's Proms with music from their Russian homeland with a complete performance of Tchaikovsky's great ballet Swan Lake.

Swan Lake tells the story of Prince Siegfried and his love for the Swan Queen, Odette. She and her swan retinue are human beings under the spell of an evil sorcerer - swans by day, human beings by night. The story of how the terrible spell is eventually broken and Siegfried and Odette united for ever is one of the most romantic and passionate tales told in the world of ballet. Tchaikovsky's score is both vivid and subtle, especially when, as this evening, it is heard complete, rather than in the more often heard suite.

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake

Valery Gergiev (conductor).

Valery Gergiev and the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

A concert celebrating the special partnership of Russian-born violinist Viktoria Mullova and her husband, British cellist Matthew Barley. Together with three friends they explore folk, gypsy and jazz-inpired music that encompasses a masterpiece by the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly and the worlds of the Modern Jazz Quartet and the American jazz-rock group Weather Report.

As well as making an intriguing programme, the music in the concert says something about Viktoria Mullova herself. According to her husband, she 'loves simplicity and emotional directness and power, as well as virtuosity that comes from the heart and for the heart (as opposed to showing off)'.

Bratsch, Arr. Barley: Bi Lovengo

John Lewis/Bratch, Arr. Barley: Django

Kodaly: Duo, Op. 7

Joe Zawinul, Arr. Barley: Pursuit of the Woman with the Feathered Hat

Matthew Barley: Yura

Joe Zawinul, Arr. Barley: The Peasant

DuOud, Arr. Barley: For Nedim (for Nadia)

Viktoria Mullova (violin)

Matthew Barley (cello)

Julian Joseph (piano)

Paul Clarvis (percussion)

Sam Walton (percussion).

Viktoria Mullova, Matthew Barley and friends play folk, gypsy and jazz-inspired music.

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London in August

Presented by Martin Handley

Another chance to hear the Chamber Orchestra of Europe celebrate its 30th anniversary with this Prom which focuses on the expressive musical world of Brahms.

The Third Symphony is generally upbeat, but the energy of the final movement floats away to a quiet and elusive end. The First Piano Concerto is bound up with Brahms's intense friendship with Robert Schumann and his wife Clara, and his sense of loss at Schumann's tragic downward spiral into madness. Emanuel Ax is the soloist, a pianist renowned for his sensitive interpretations, and he rejoins the orchestra for more Brahms tomorrow.

Haitink, a distinguished interpreter of Brahms, admires the COE's ability to play together like chamber musicians.

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor

Emanuel Ax (piano)

Bernard Haitink (conductor).

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe in music by Brahms: Symphony No 3; Piano Concerto No 1.

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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their Associate Guest Conductor, Andrew Manze, continue the celebration of Brahms in this late night concert with a richly romantic programme with pianist Angela Hewitt.

Angela Hewitt starts the concert on solo piano with the first two of the popular Op. 117 Intermezzos by Brahms written in 1892. Inspired by a Scottish folk song the first's beautiful melody is concealed in an inner part, and the second intermezzo uses arpeggios as a texture. They are two sad lullabies and some of the last piano music Brahms wrote before he died in 1897. At the beginning of Brahms' life, in 1853 he met Robert Schumann who became his musical father figure during their short but intense friendship. Schumann's Introduction and Allegro was written in 1849 just before Brahms met the Schumanns and was premiered with Clara Schumann at the keyboard. It was later dedicated to Brahms, and Clara was to became the great love of Brahms's life. Finally we observe Brahms through the prism of an admirer - Arnold Schoenberg - who arranged his piano quartet for orchestra in 1937 and highlighted the influence that Brahms had in music travelling from Bach and Beethoven, through to the music composed in the twentieth century.

Brahms: Three intermezzos, Op. 117 - Nos. 1 & 2

Schumann: Introduction and Concert Allegro, Op. 134

Brahm, Arr. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor

Angela Hewitt (piano)

Andrew Manze (conductor).

Angela Hewitt (piano) joins the BBC SSO under Andrew Manze in music by Brahms and Schumann

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London last August

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Another chance to hear a Prom concert from last August in which pianist Angela Hewitt joined the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their Associate Guest Conductor, Andrew Manze, in a late night concert that celebrated the music of Brahms.

The concert opens with solo piano as Angela Hewitt performs the first two of Brahms's popular Op. 117 Intermezzos, the first of which was inspired by a Scottish folk song. As a young man Brahms met Robert Schumann who became his musical father figure while his wife Clara his muse. Schumann's Introduction and Allegro was written just before Brahms met the Schumanns and was premiered with Clara Schumann at the keyboard - it was later dedicated to Brahms. Finally we observe the romantic composer Brahms viewed through the prism of the modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg in his piano quartet which Schoenberg arranged for orchestra in 1937.

Brahms: Three intermezzos, Op. 117 - Nos. 1 & 2

Schumann: Introduction and Concert Allegro, Op. 134

Brahms arr. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor

Angela Hewitt (piano)

Andrew Manze (conductor).

Angela Hewitt joins the BBC SSO under Andrew Manze to perform Brahms and Schumann.

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Louise Fryer

Another chance to hear the second of two concerts recorded in August in which Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and pianist Emmanuel Ax in music by Brahms.

They open with a work long central to Emanuel Ax's repertoire. Brahms's Second Piano Concerto is on a grand Romantic scale and makes huge technical demands on the soloist. Following this, they perform the composer's astonishing final symphony, where the balance between expressiveness and structural control is most perfectly maintained.

Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat major

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor

Emanuel Ax (piano)

Bernard Haitink (conductor).

Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Bernard Haitink in Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2; Symphony No 4.

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London last August

Presented by Louise Fryer

Another chance to hear Sir Colin Davis conduct an orchestra of brilliant young musicians in a programme which ranges from Stravinsky's so-called 'war symphony' via the heady orientalism of Ravel to the dramatic Fate motif of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony. The leading American mezzo soprano, Susan Graham joins them for Ravel's vision of the Orient, which is by turns sensuous, voluptuous and erotic.

Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

Ravel: Sh退h退razade

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor

Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)

Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

Sir Colin Davis (conductor).

Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra plays Stravinsky, Ravel and Tchaikovsky at the 2011 Proms.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor.

A Late Night Prom celebrating the keyboard genius of anniversary composer, Franz Liszt. French pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin plays a selection of virtuosic works spanning the whole of the composer-pianist's imaginative and emotional world.

Liszt: Legend No. 2 (St. Francis of Paola Walking on the Water)

Liszt: Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H

Liszt: B退n退diction de Dieu dans las solitude

Liszt: Venezia e Napoli

Marc-Andr退 Hamelin (piano).

Marc-Andre Hamelin gives a recital of piano music by Liszt.

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London last August

Presented by Andrew McGregor.

Another chance to hear a Late Night Prom celebrating the keyboard genius of anniversary composer, Franz Liszt. French pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin plays a selection of virtuosic works spanning the whole of the composer-pianist's imaginative and emotional world.

Liszt: Legend No. 2 (St. Francis of Paola Walking on the Water)

Liszt: Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H

Liszt: B退n退diction de Dieu dans las solitude

Liszt: Venezia e Napoli

Marc-Andr退 Hamelin (piano).

A Prom from 2011 in which French pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin plays keyboard music by Liszt.

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London in August

Presented by Suzy Klein

Another chance to hear John Wilson and his Orchestra with starry soloists and the Maida Vale Singers celebrating the Golden Age of Hollywood film Musicals, from the earliest days through to the 1960s.

Back in the mid 20th century the Hollywood studios attracted the best composers, lyricists and orchestrators to write for their stars. The results are what John Wilson calls 'miniature works of art' which were played by orchestras composed of virtuoso players. Matching that, the John Wilson Orchestra is made up of the cream of Britain's orchestral musicians who have wowed Proms audiences with the passion and sheer vivacity of their playing. They perform classics from the 1930s onwards, from films staring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers including the title numbers from 'Shall We Dance' and 'Top Hat', through the 40s and 50s with numbers from 'Strike up the Band' and 'Guys and Dolls', through to hit musical films from the 60s including 'Gypsy' and 'West Side Story'.

Caroline O'Connor (vocalist)

Clare Teal (vocalist)

Annalene Beechey (vocalist)

Matthew Ford (vocalist)

Sarah Fox (vocalist)

Charles Castronovo (vocalist)

John Wilson (conductor).

John Wilson and his orchestra celebrate the golden age of Hollywood film musicals.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Catherine Bott

An Audience Choice Late Night Prom. The Budapest Festival Orchestra and Music Director Ivan Fischer have a wide repertoire - and in the second of their two Proms tonight they're letting the audience in the Royal Albert Hall choose precisely what they want to hear. So tune in and be surprised!

Ivကn Fischer (conductor).

The Budapest Festival Orchestra plays music chosen by the audience.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London last September

Presented by Catherine Bott

Another chance to hear the first ever 'Audience Choice Prom'. The Budapest Festival Orchestra and Music Director Ivan Fischer have a wide repertoire - and in this Prom they let the audience in the Royal Albert Hall choose precisely what they want to hear.

Ivကn Fischer (conductor).

The Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer in an Audience Choice Prom.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Catherine Bott

Making his Prom debut the Parisian organist Thierry Escaich, one of today's most famed exponents of the art of improvisation, demonstrates his skills in a variety of styles on the mighty Albert Hall instrument, and also plays concert works by four great organist-composers from the 18th and 19th centuries. Improvisation has always been part of the organist's musical armoury, and never more so than amongst the great French players of the instrument.

Thierry Escaich: Overture in the Baroque Style (improvisation)

J. S. Bach: Chorale Prelude 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland', BWV 659

Thierry Escaich: Evocation III (on 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland') (UK Premiere)

Reger: Chorale Prelude 'Jauchz, Erd, und Himmel, juble hell', Op. 67 No. 15

Franck: Chorale No. 2 in B minor

Liszt: Adagio in D flat major, S759

Thierry Escaich: Triptych on Themes by Liszt (improvisation)

Thierry Escaich (organ).

Thierry Escaich (organ) in improvisations and 18th and 19th century concert works.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London in September

Presented by Catherine Bott

Another chance to hear Parisian organist Thierry Escaich, one of today's most famed exponents of the art of improvisation, demonstrate his skills in a variety of styles on the mighty Albert Hall instrument as well as playing concert works by four great organist-composers from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Thierry Escaich: Overture in the Baroque Style (improvisation)

J. S. Bach: Chorale Prelude 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland', BWV 659

Thierry Escaich: Evocation III (on 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland')

Reger: Chorale Prelude 'Jauchz, Erd, und Himmel, juble hell', Op. 67 No. 15

Franck: Chorale No. 2 in B minor

Liszt: Adagio in D flat major, S759

Thierry Escaich: Triptych on Themes by Liszt (improvisation)

Thierry Escaich (organ).

Thierry Escaich in organ improvisations and pieces from the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

In the last of this season's Choral Sundays, Sir Colin Davis tackles the largest and longest of Beethoven's non-stage works, the Missa Solemnis. This monumental work seems to skirt the boundaries of whether it is music made for the concert hall or the church. 'My chief aim was to awaken and permanently instill religious feelings not only into the singers but also into the listeners,' Beethoven himself wrote of the work.

The London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and London Philharmonic Choir lead the huge forces in what Beethoven considered to be his supreme achievement in music.

The quartet of soloists, made up of soprano Helena Juntunen, mezzo Sarah Connolly, tenor Paul Groves, and bass Matthew Rose, have demanding roles in this work, where the orchestra, chorus, and quartet each take on changing and challenging musical roles.

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis

Helena Juntunen (soprano)

Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)

Paul Groves (tenor)

Matthew Rose (bass)

London Symphony Chorus

Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

This prom will be repeated on Tuesday 6 September at 2.30pm.

Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London last year

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Another chance to hear one of the greatest pieces of chamber music in this Late Night Prom concert from last year. A leading quartet of our time is joined by the distinguished cellist and founder member of the Berg Quartet, Valentin Erben. Barely thirty years old, but already near death, Schubert had his String Quintet rejected by his publisher and only performed and published many years after his death. But its exploratory outer movements and the sublimely transcendent slow movement, continue to inspire musicians, poets, film makers and audiences to this day.

Schubert: Quintet in C major, D956

Belcea Quartet

Valentin Erben (cello).

Belcea Quartet, Valentin Erben (cello) play Schubert's Quintet in C, D956 at Proms 2011.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Jez Nelson

A Late Night centenary tribute to the great American band leader Stan Kenton whose orchestra during the late 1940s and early 1950s was the biggest jazz attraction in the world.

Drawing to its ranks the cream of America's soloists and arrangers his famous 'wall of sound' is still hugely influential on the big bands today. The BBC Big Band celebrates his legacy in a programme that includes some of his classical arrangements with special guest vocalist Claire Martin.

Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm (excerpt)

Sampson (arr. Bill Holman): Stompin' At The Savoy

Strouse: (arr. Bill Holman): Lot Of Livin' To Do

Greer (arr. Kenton): All About Ronnie

Warren (arr. Kenton): Jeepers Creepers

Johnston (arr Paich): My Old Flame

Kenton: Concerto To End All Concertos

Lecuona (arr. Bill Holman): Malaguena

Burke (arr. Kenton): Black Coffee

Strayhorn (arr. Niehaus): Daydream

Richards: Cuban Fire Suite

Claire Martin (vocalist)

Jiggs Whigham (conductor).

The BBC Big Band with vocalist Claire Martin perform a tribute to Stan Kenton.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London last September

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Another chance to hear one of the world's great orchestras on their visit to last year's Proms with a programme of familiar classics including Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, written for the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Charles Dutoit conducts the ever-popular Tchaikovsky Concerto, with soloist Janine Janson, as well as Sibelius's nationalistic tone poem and Ravel's apotheosis of the waltz, a piece whose unstoppable whirling may have been intended as a metaphor for the fate of European civilisation.

Sibelius: Finlandia

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Ravel: La valse

Janine Jansen (violin)

Charles Dutoit (conductor).

Philadelphia Orchestra under Charles Dutoit in Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Ravel.

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Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London last September

Presented by Martin Handley

Another chance to hear a rare performance of Weber's opera Der Freischutz in the French version by Berlioz from last year's Proms. One of the cornerstones of German Romantic opera the work was reimagined by Berlioz - a huge fan of Weber - for audiences in Paris in 1841. As originally composed, the work has spoken dialogue in German, but for the Paris production this was replaced with recitatives as well as adding the ballet expected by French audiences at the time.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts, and tenor Andrew Kennedy as the forester-hero, Max, and the Belgian soprano Sophie Karthauser as his beloved Agathe lead the international cast in this dramatic tale of romance and magic.

Weber: Der Freischütz (French Version, 1841)

Andrew Kennedy (Max)

Sophie Karth䀀user (Agathe)

Gidon Saks (Kaspar)

Virginie Pochon (Ānnchen)

Matthew Brook (Kuno)

Luc Bertin-Hugault (A Hermit)

Christian Pelissier (Zamiel)

Samuel Evans (Kilian)

Robert Davies (Ottokar)

Monteverdi Choir

Orchestre R退volutionnaire et Romantique

Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).

A Prom from 2011 featuring Weber's opera Der Freischutz in the French version by Berlioz.

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